VMware Horizon 6 allows customers to integrate, migrate, and replace their existing Citrix environments on a single platform for desktop and application services from the datacenter to devices. It provides better performance and lower costs than maintaining separate Citrix and VMware platforms. Migrating from Citrix XenApp to VMware Horizon is easy with dedicated tools and services to accelerate the move in just a few steps.

1. 1. SDDC WITH HORIZON ALLOWS CUSTOMERS TO DO MORE:
INTEGRATE MIGRATE & REPLACE
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You’ve relied on Citrix in the past. And they were the only game in
town when it came to published apps. But now you have a choice…
MOVE FORWARD WITH VMWARE—the only platform
purpose-built for the mobile cloud era. Horizon 6 allows you to crush
the quo so you can transform the delivery and management of
desktop and application services.
Unlike other vendors, VMware provides a single platform to support you from the datacenter to devices.
VMware Horizon 6 and the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) provides great performance and results.
WHY VMWARE?
Why pay more to run and manage two platforms, when you can do everything on one?
2. YOU CAN MOVE TODAY AND SAVE
FOUR REASONS WHY YOU NEED TO MOVE
3. MOVING TO VMWARE HORIZON IS EASY
Take advantage of dedicated tools and services to accelerate your move!
1 Deploy VMware Horizon with View
2 Deploy VMware Horizon Workspace Portal
3 Prepare Remote Desktop Services Hosts
4 Create RDSH Farms and Application Pools; Entitle Users
5 Decommission XenApp
1 Deploy VMware Horizon Workspace
2 Implement the Citrix Integration Broker
3 Configure Horizon Workspace for XenApp
4 Decommission Citrix Web Interface or StoreFront
VMware Horizon 6 provides full support for published applications and
desktop sessions with RDSH-- as well as so much more!
Microsoft recently announced the End of Availability of Server 2003. So, if
you are using this platform, you have some choices to make.
Citrix has announced the End of Maintenance of XenApp 5.0, and you are
looking at some steep support costs to stay with the status quo.
INTEGRATE XENAPP WITH
HORIZON IN 4 EASY STEPS:
MIGRATE OR REPLACE XENAPP WITH
HORIZON IN 5 EASY STEPS:
HIGHER OPERATIONAL
EFFICIENCIES
BANK OF TOKYO–MITSUBISHI
(BTMU) has eliminated 32,500
man-hours/month of security
updates.
GREAT PRODUCTIVITY
MECKLENBURG COUNTY
saves $1.2M/year as a result
of increased productivity.
LOWER COSTS
COLT cut CAPEX costs by 22%/year.
GREAT USER EXPERIENCE
NORTH CAROLINA STATE
UNIVERSITY supports one of
the top 20 game-design
programs in the country.
EXCELLENT SERVICE
LEVELS
CENTCOM has 100% uptime.
SPECIAL OFFER
From July 1st to Dec 15th 2014, Citrix customers can make the move to Horizon 6 and 3 years of
SnS for roughly the cost of 3 years of Citrix SA and support.
If you are not on Citrix XenApp 7.5 or XenDesktop 7.1 and you are looking to
move, you are looking at a full rip and replace from their Integrated
Management Architecture to their Flexcast Management Architecture.
CONSOLIDATE
management with one
platform to reduce
OPEX.
REPURPOSE
Citrix FTEs to manage
other projects.
REUSE
vSphere licenses from
your XenApp server
farms when you move
these to RDS Hosted
Apps and Desktops.
LEVERAGE
existing Netscaler
appliances - these
work with Horizon 6!
GET MORE VALUE
from Virtual SAN,
vSphere for Desktop
with vCenter and
Mirage—all ONLY
included with VMware
Horizon 6 bundles.
(valued at $265/user when
bought a la carte)